i met up with taj again in bangkok and this time he brought cassilis and nemocaca who i also know through playing warcraft. we had a top afternoon sitting and eating cakes talking geek to each other which was great.
i've been in chiang mai for a couple of days with my good friends from university, davina and david. the bus trip from bangkok was hellish, it took 10 hours and the airconditioning was broken so it was like being in a sauna and there was condensation dripping on me from above the whole way through. it was horrid. on arrival i checked into my little guesthouse and had a good long sleep before heading over to where davina and david were staying. it was so great to see them and we had lots of stories to exchange over our food - they have travelled through hong kong, vietnam, laos and cambodia and will head south now ending up in australia before they go and do south america. they're away for a year and will pretty much see everything!
yesterday was one of the coolest days ever, we went on a trip to do the gibbon experience. it was awesome,we basically spent the day whizzing through the trees on zip wires screaming and giggling like little schoolchildren. it was bloody fantastic. we had some lovely food last night and now davina and david have headed off to pai. i have 3 hours to kill before i go back to bangkok this evening. i hope the airconditioning works on this bus it's so ridiculously hot and sticky today!
now we come to something pretty big. i think i'm going to come home this weekend. like i said in my last entry i've been homesick for so long, as long as i can remember actually, and i think i'm done with travelling for now. i've been such a lucky person and i feel privileged to have had the opportunity to travel around and experience new cultures and see some of the most beautiful, amazing things the world has to offer but enough is enough. i'm tired of living out of a rucksack, wearing the same 3 sets of clothes, 
always moving around and most importantly i'm done with being alone. i know that i have met people and travelled with others but i miss my friends, my family, my stuff, my manchester, my everything. being alone for the last 3 months has helped me work out a lot about the person i am and what i want from life. this has been a real experience for me and certainly one that i needed but yeah, i think i'm done. i want a routine again, to get up and go to work and to have a life. i think that's been the most important realisation for me on this trip as before i came away that was the last thing that i wanted - i was fed up of the 9 to 5, fed up of england and now i want that back.
i hope in years to come i won't regret this decision, which is why i haven't booked my ticket yet. i'll mull it over for a couple of days and make the final decision in singapore. i know that i will return to india so i'm not too worried about missing calcutta, darjeeling, varanasi and so on as i will definitely see them in the future.so yeah, that's where i'm at right now :D
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